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  1. Re:Everything costs more in Australia on Pricing: Apple Defies Australian Government · · Score: 1

    The cost of sale is different, you don't want to download 20GB from US servers...

  2. Re:Smart people know already... on C++ 2011 and the Return of Native Code · · Score: 1

    As if .NET languages or Java protect you from 0day exploits...

    Programming is hard, people that don't understand what they are doing, shouldn't do it.

  3. Re:Good on A Linux Kernel More Stable Than -stable · · Score: 1

    I assume you just are ignorant of slackware, not simply trolling.

    Slackware 9.0 (released in 2003) still receives security updates.

  4. Re:all human processes are natural on US Energy Panel Cautiously Endorses Fracking · · Score: 1

    Then check your sources, like I checked mine.

  5. Re:no, i mean GASLAND on US Energy Panel Cautiously Endorses Fracking · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Thing is, it's not because of gas companies that there is methane in water. It's a natural process that was happening for at least few hundred years.

    It's not like they are without fault, but I give credit where credit is due.

  6. Re:It already is a major, massive source of energy on US Energy Panel Cautiously Endorses Fracking · · Score: 1

    You mean the same one that "forgets" to mention that there were federal audits of water sources done in the beginning of last century that found "high concentrations of hydrocarbons" in that same area?

    It more and more looks like the Anthopogenic Global Warming and Al Gore's Hockey Stick.

    It's always about money.

  7. Re:SMB2 and databases on Samba 3.6 Released With SMB2 Support · · Score: 1

    I can only say it's a Good Thing, on many levels

  8. Re:I remember the ping of death on Microsoft Patches 1990s-Era 'Ping of Death' · · Score: 1

    Brain damaged == Any modem under $50

  9. Re:So... practical linux attacks next? on Macs More Vulnerable Than Windows For Enterprise · · Score: 1

    Linux doesn't need any local ports open to be able to authenticate to LDAP, the only service that (partially) does is CUPS and it can be configured by a one liner to contact the server directly and don't listen to broadcasts.

  10. Re:Is DHX enterprise grade? on Macs More Vulnerable Than Windows For Enterprise · · Score: 1

    I learned that DH key exchange is insecure unless you know the attacker can't MITM-you if school! During my first year at university. Any cryptographer that thought that bare DH is a good idea isn't worth the paper his resume was written on. They could at least use a pre-shared secret to authenticate parties in the key exchange if they couldn't be bothered with a full-blown PKI.

  11. Re:The "die" layer must be why on Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc · · Score: 1

    So the marketdroids didn't lie about my 4 year old dvd 16x player being the "technology of tommorow"?!

  12. Re:It doesn't really last forever on Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc · · Score: 1

    probability of survival of the media. If it is designed to withstand two millenia you really ought not to have any problems reading it after 30 or 50 years. And you still can get hardware 50 years old in working condition

  13. Re:Immortal Reader As Well on Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc · · Score: 1

    We've been using 10 based counting system for few thousands of years. At worst we will be using a even power of 2 based compuer: 4, 8 or 16 values to a bit. Otherwise programming it would be much much harder with no good sides.

  14. Re:I don't get it on Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce · · Score: 1

    21 years is still over two decades of development

  15. Secure networks on IBM To Unveil Secure Open Wireless At Black Hat · · Score: 2

    > susceptible to a number of simple attacks, including passive sniffing and man-in-the-middle.

    <sarcasm>because we all know that ethernet based networks are completely immune to this kinds of attacks</sarcasm>

    Routing for whole subnets have been hijacked in the past! The solution is wide deployment of DNSSEC and HTTPS, not making inherently insecure networks secure, that is not possible in the Internet.

  16. Re:headline != article content on Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    > - all the nuclear stuff was confiscated

    oh bugger, now he'll need to buy bananas again

  17. Re:Gnome on KDE 4.7.0 Released · · Score: 1

    If I didn't want to be able to set up my GUI applications using GUI config menus I'd be using CLI applications. At least I'd be able to read archived mail over SSH...

  18. Re:Google must be watching... on Oracle Announces Java SE 7 · · Score: 2

    Around Athlon AMD started to use completely different microarchitecture than Intel.

  19. Re:Why exactly on Sniffer Hijacks SSL Traffic From Unpatched IPhones · · Score: 1

    You either do check SSL certs and use secure ciphers or you don't.

    If you don't you're not secure no matter the access point to network. Internet is a insecure network, WiFi hot-spots don't make it less so.

  20. Re:3G Owners are SCREWED on Sniffer Hijacks SSL Traffic From Unpatched IPhones · · Score: 1

    Sucks to be them. No one forced them to use closed source libraries.

    There should be a requirement for all governmental contracts to sell the application and service together with source code.

  21. Re:A bit ironic ... on New Soyuz Launch Facility Near the Equator · · Score: 1

    2011 NASA budget: 19 billion
    2011 DoD budget: 708 billion

  22. Re:There real time stats are interesting... on The Humble Indie Bundle 3 Released · · Score: 1

    Or what about if you let people themselves judge what is a good game and what is not.

    Fair point, but it's hard to judge a game you haven't actually played yet...